Computer Integrated MAnufacturing

Title: Computer Integrated MAnufacturing
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1050 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Computer Integrated MAnufacturing
American steel industry fell behind the Japanese industry, so changes had to be made in the processes of manufacturing. Nucor Steel opened in 1989 in Indiana and made a revolution in steel industry. Keith Russe is the general manager of the plant. The Nucor plant is rather small, but they produce 800,000 tons of steel each year. The reason of high productivity is the computer integrated manufacturing and management. Team work is also very important. The computer …showed first 75 words of 1050 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1050 total…into furnaces, where it melts into steel lava, and it is then moved into continuous caster, then to computer controlled gas premise, and then to the finishing room. Tags are put on the finished coils. Computer screens tell what each customer wants. As a result of the success, another plant was opened in Arkansas. With the help of new technologies, procedures, and computer integrated manufacturing, the American steel industry managed to gain the market share.

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